2009/8/3 Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 17:41 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> I assert that if the W3C promotes the distribution of files with root
>> strings, it will compromise its credibility.
>
> Thank you. I was looking for a way to express
> that concisely.
>
> An EOTL Recommendation that does not encourage
> EOTC support with rootstrings ignored effectively
> endorses the use of rootstrings as a UA-enforced
> form of DRM.
Right - when we say "EOTC files with rootstrings should be ignored" we
mean that the FILE should be ignored - flushed, as John Hudson
poetically calls it - and not merely the rootstring.